What’s in the news?

• UN climate talks in Scotland has concluded with a global agreement aimed at keeping alive hopes of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and so maintain a realistic shot at saving the world from catastrophic climate change.
• Nations have accepted a compromise deal aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that watered-down crucial language about coal.
• United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that our fragile planet is hanging by a thread. The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first-ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.
• In one of the strongest criticisms of the COP26 draft deal, Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav said developing nations had the right to use the remainder of the so-called global “carbon budget”, or the amount of carbon dioxide the world can release before warming crosses the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold.
• Yadav also criticised what he described as “lack of balance” in the agreement, an argument developing countries have made before when pushing for more money to better adapt their countries to deal with the effects of climate change.

Reference:

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